Sprint Is Said to Plan Unlimited Data With IPhone 5 to Stand Out From Pack
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) will offer Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone next month with unlimited data service plans to distinguish itself from rivals AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Wireless, according to people fam...
Exclusive: Android ‘Jelly Bean’ comes after Ice Cream Sandwich (update)
We're hearing from a trusted source this afternoon that the next version of Android after Ice Cream Sandwich will be known as “Jelly Bean,” continuing Google's longstanding tradition of naming Android...
Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8
boot times represent an effective proxy for overall system performance and we all know the boot experience is an incredibly important thing for us to get right for customers.
NBC News Twitter account hacked with fake news of 9/11 Ground Zero attack
Sick-minded hackers have broken into the Twitter account of NBC News and posted messages claiming that there has been a terrorist attack at Ground Zero in New York. — The bogus messages claimed that...
Apple wins (again) in Germany: Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction upheld
A reporter from Germany's leading news agency DPA (Deutsche Presse Agentur) was first to report on Twitter that the Düsseldorf Regional Court once again upheld the preliminary injunction against the G...
Google's Zagat buy could give search critics more ammo
Google's acquisition of Zagat, which was announced on the Google blog on Thursday, is a relatively small one for the search-engine giant: less than $66 million, according to some estimates. But the r...
Researchers' Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail From Fortune 500
E-mail captured with a doppelganger domain reveals information from a large oil firm's daily tank report, including the contents of its cargo tanks that day. Image: Godai Group — Two researchers wh...
Microsoft to give Hotmail an image (and feature) makeover
Summary: Microsoft is planning a Hotmail press event in October that may mark the introduction of a new (and maybe HTML5-based) version of its Web-based e-mail service. — Microsoft is inviting New Y...
The Logged Out User (continued)
I brought this subject up a while back. It's a big one that doesn't get enough attention. — And yesterday we got some stats from Twitter that I'd like to talk about. Dick Costolo gave a “state of ...
Netflix app now supports all Android Froyo/Gingerbread devices
Netflix updated its Android application on Friday with support for any smartphone running Android 2.2 (Froyo) or Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Netflix launched an Android app in May of this year, but it...
Google Mapping a way to the top
Lars Rasmussen confesses that he doesn't have much of a sense of direction. But that didn't stop him creating Google Maps, one of the world's leading tech success stories of the past decade. — In a...
Facebook Begins Testing Friend Filters in News Feed [PICS]
Facebook has begun testing a slew of changes to the News Feed, including friend list filters and Smart Lists that automatically categorize your friends. — The changes seem to be aimed at making the ...
Ex-Googlers Launch Mobile Travel Guide To Kill Lonely Planet; Raise Funding From Chris Sacca & More
In the days of yore, travel guides were written by intrepid travelers who spent months scribbling in diaries and field journals, or by teams of adventurous souls exhaustively scrap booking …
Anonymous group releases new Twitter tool
Anonymous has released a new tool designed to let its messages ride the coattails of trending topics on Twitter. — The Anonymous group of online activists released a new tool today designed to allow...
“Do Not Track” standards for the Web: The work is starting.
by Nick Doty and Thomas Roessler. — Since we published the Web Tracking Protection member submission in February, and since the Workshop on Web tracking and User Privacy in late April, the conversat...
Twitter Selects Edelman As Its First PR Agency
SAN FRANCISCO—Twitter has concluded the hunt for its first PR agency by hiring Edelman, the Holmes Report can reveal. — The social media giant is understood to have appointed Edelman to handle a sho...
What's wrong with the Twitter API
I want to make something clear from the start: I love Twitter, though sometimes I wonder if I'm suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I have devoted much of the last three years of my life to working wi...
UK's Waterstones To Wade Into The E-Reader Market With Kindle Killer?
Waterstones—the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut—is taking a tip from its U.S. counterpart Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and launching its own e-readi...
Senator Introduces Online Security Bill
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, introduced a new bill Thursday that aims to protect citizens' personal information from online data breaches. The bill would also punish companies...
Apple website gets a revamp, new iPad shopping wizard
With the Apple Store going down over the past few hours , Apple has brought its website back online with a new and improved interfaces on its product pages, specifically adapting the iPad ordering pro...
Microsoft's online services hit by outage
Several of Microsoft's online services suffered an outage on Thursday but are reportedly all back up at this point. — The company's Office 365, Hotmail, SkyDrive, and various Windows Live services w...